[Equal Protection NC] [Personhood Alliance NC] [Love Live]

A Joint Statement in Support of the North Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act

As a united coalition of Christian conservative groups, we are proud to support Equal Protection Legislation in North Carolina. 

North Carolina is a destination state for abortion in the South. In 2023, an estimated 45,780 mothers procured abortions in North Carolina, representing a 41% increase from 2021, prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

Abortion numbers are exploding in North Carolina because abortion is completely unregulated up to 12 weeks into pregnancy, while mothers have total legal immunity to self-manage their own abortions at home at any point in pregnancy. The ability of mothers to take the lives of their preborn children with explicit legal permission, along with the availability of the abortion pill, is enabling the proliferation of prenatal genocide in North Carolina. 

HB [_] would provide equal protection to every child in the womb at the moment of conception, and thus, end legalized child sacrifice in North Carolina. Every child in the womb is created in the holy Image of God from the moment of conception. Therefore, the same laws that protect people who are born should also protect those who are not yet born. 

Providing equal protection to preborn babies is simply about loving our preborn neighbors as ourselves by protecting them with the same laws that protect our lives (Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:31), showing no partiality in justice (Psalm 82:2, Proverbs 20:10). God also commands us to pursue justice for the fatherless child (Psalm 82:3, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 10:2, and Jeremiah 5:28). Who is more fatherless than a child in the womb of a mother who desires to end their life?

North Carolina laws that deny equal protection to preborn babies violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which declares that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Since the biblical and scientific evidence overwhelmingly affirms the personhood of the preborn, preborn lives are constitutionally protected. Passing HB [_] would ensure North Carolina’s compliance with the U.S. Constitution. 

It is also an undisputed scientific fact that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, not at 12 weeks or 6 weeks. At fertilization, God creates a new human being with a unique genetic code. HB [_] protects human life at fertilization when personhood truly begins. 

Irrespective of public opinion, it is the duty of civil magistrates before God to protect the lives of all human beings within their jurisdictions. The North Carolina General Assembly is responsible for legally protecting the life of every preborn baby in the state. North Carolina’s status as the “destination state” for abortion in the South is patently unacceptable, and we are calling on the General Assembly to make North Carolina a sanctuary for life by passing HB [_] immediately.